Thursday, March 17, 2011

Covering Up A Foundation Of A House

Now Close to the edge: the apex Yes

Edward D'Amato. I state just one thing: it is really difficult to talk about an album like this ... The words seem superfluous, and indeed, careful listening is the most appropriate advice to try to understand the magnitude of the band formed in 1968 by vocalist Jon Anderson. But one thing I can say with certainty: released in 1972, Close to the Edge raises all sorts of emotion. Take the eponymous track that opens the disc: the beginning is pure madness, with the pounding rhythm of the guitar of Steve Howe and Bill Bruford drums. At this point in the scene of Anderson's voice and especially the keyboards of Wakeman: in the middle of the song the British keyboard player pulls a complicated solo that accompanies the words of Anderson ("I get up I get down"). The pace becomes incisive, up to the end that echoes the sound of birdsong and the sound of waterfalls that had opened up the track. In almost 19 minutes there all: sweetness and madness, delicacy and disorder.
"And You and I" is a folk rock ballad composed of three parts, before the masterpiece album, "Siberian Khatru" when I hear this song go off on their legs, dancing ... It 'the same effect as Roundabout, however, is why the last trace of Close to the edge is related to Fragile album released the year before. The greatness of Howe is unlikely to be reached by others: his epochal solo and is therefore left to Wakeman. The items here are really unnecessary: \u200b\u200bthe sophisticated rock of Yes to be simply listened to e. .. danced.

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